Stroer Bros. & Fine VOODOO TRAVEL Rhap Poetry and Metafizzical Muzzic for the 21st Zentury VOODOO TRAVEL is a pilgrimage, the next chapter in the Magical Mystery Tour. In bus we trust! It’s a trip from misery to mystery, from poverty to poetry. Like metaphysical poetry centuries ago, it’s about love and mortality, the inescapability of death, the unrepeatable ecstasy of the present moment. It’s RHAP POETRY because it’s a rhapsody, epical in the grandness of its dimensions, with emphasis on recitation, wildly enthusiastic, visionary, high- flying, erratically emotional, and boldly irregular. STROER BROS. & FINE is a creative collective based in Munich, Germany. It’s METAFIZZICAL MUSIC because it’s fizzy, effervescent, bubbly, We’re now releasing our second album. groovy, fun. Our current CD is called VOODOO TRAVEL and it will be released on our It’s VOODOO TRAVEL because travel guide and bus driver Howard Fine own label, ILUSION RECORDS, which has collected a group of individuals who are searching for love, meaning, we founded in 1982. enlightenment and relief. He takes them to unknown places to find it. VOODOO TRAVEL journeys through uncanny inner worlds – scary, exhilarating, beyond the physical, nonordinary, visionary realms, yet all with VOODOO TRAVEL is a concept one foot in the banal, mundane, absurdity of the hell-bent for destruction album of jazz/groove music with catchy 21st century. refrains and hooklines composed and performed by Stroer Bros. with English HOWARD FINE lyrics written and recited by native New Among many other activities, he danced in modern dance and ballet Yorker Howard Fine, together with guest companies, choreographed performance-art events, and performed with many singers. ensembles, including Tanzprojekt Munich, Theaterlabor Munich and the Bavarian State Opera. After passing the required examinations, he was awarded permission to practice the healing arts in the field of psychotherapy, The VOODOO TRAVEL audio CD is certification as a shamanic counselor from the Foundation for Shamanic Studies packaged in a CapBox along with an and official recognition as a yoga instructor, as well as the German fishing illustrated, four-color, 64-page booklet license, a Bachelor’s degree (cum laude) from Harvard University and a containing the lyrics and artwork. Master’s degree from the University of Munich. STROER BROS. Hans plays bass, guitars and piano, Ernst plays all kinds of drums and HIGHLIGHTS percussion, the two of them descended from the wildly expanded jazz brew As a music production team for German of the 70s. Back then, they toured the world with the MILD MANIAC rockstar Udo Lindenberg, STROER ORCHESTRA of Germany’s No. 1 jazz guitar player VOLKER KRIEGEL. BROS. have sold more than two million At home in the recording studio as well as on stage, they rank among records on Polygram in Germany, Austria Germany’s finest jazz musicians. Hans recorded with STING, FALCO, and Switzerland, including top ten hits DONNA SUMMER, GILBERT BECAUD and many others. and several golden albums. Ernst played more than 1,000 concerts with PASSPORT, the band of “Thomas Mann — Novel of a Century” saxophone player KLAUS DOLDINGER, touring the world with guests like with score music by H.P. Stroer won the MICHAEL BRECKER, RANDY BRECKER, DON ALIAS, JONNY GRIFFIN, International Emmy Award in 2002. BILLY COBHAM, CASSANDRA WILSON, BRIAN AUGER and many others. Ernst is a founding member of DJ Christian Prommer’s project DRUMLESSON, produced by PETER KRUDER. GET MORE INFO AT Track Listing: www.myspace.com/voodootravel 1. Day By Day We Drift Away 2. Inbreath Outbreath 3. The Oracle Has Answered www.stroerbros.de 4. Stay On Course Toward The Source 5. On The Shores 6. News From Nowhere 7. Wordless Love 8. Ghost Town Square Dance 9. The Goal Of Soul 10. Speech Surrenders 11. Merger With The Void 12. Darwin’s Masterful Stunt 13. Pipedream’s Puff 14. Fruitfly, Multiply! 15. I Was Down On The Earth ILUSION RECORDS Total runtime: 72 minutes Stroeer Bros. Music Production Auinger Str. 35, D-82237 Woerthsee Tel +49-8153-7282 Meet us next week in Cannes at MIDEM Cell +49-172-266 01 06 on Tues., Jan. 26 and Wed., Jan. 27, 2010. Fax +49-8153-7439 Email [email protected] Contact via email [email protected].